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Top Texas Criminal Justice Stories of 2010

It's difficult to designate a group of "top" Texas criminal justice stories for 2010, in what overall felt like a transitional year. Cities, counties and the state began for the first time to recognize the magnitude of the fiscal crisis facing government budgets at all levels. If budgets dip with tax revenues for a sustained period, the system will be forced to re-assess priorities at all levels in a way that decision makers now are only vaguely beginning to consider. In the meantime, the biggest criminal justice stories I see on from the past year were:Todd Willingham, the Texas Forensic Science Commission and Charlie Baird's Last Hurrah: An appellate court shut down Judge Charlie Baird's court of inquiry in the Todd Willingham case and Chairman John Bradley successfully delayed consideration of flawed science in Willingham's case by the Forensic Science Commission until after the election...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on January 01, 2011 (boomark / email).